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Sport
Results
Fixtures
National League North AFC Fylde 3 Bradford
(Park Avenue) 3; AFC Telford United P
Hereford FC P; Chester FC 3 Alfreton Town 0;
Chorley 1 Curzon Ashton 1; Gloucester City 0
Boston United 0; Kidderminster Harriers 0
Kettering Town 2; Leamington 0 Brackley
Town 0; Spennymoor Town 0 Guiseley 2National League South Billericay Town P
Chelmsford City P; Braintree Town P Welling
United P; Chippenham Town 0 Hampton &
Richmond 3; Dorking Wanderers 2
Maidstone United 2; Dulwich Hamlet P St
Albans City P; Hungerford Town 1 Oxford City
4; Slough Town P Ebbsfleet United P;
Tonbridge Angels 2 Concord Rangers 0Snooker
UK Championship third round J Lisowski
(Eng) 6 Si Xu (China) 2; M Selby (Eng) 6
H Ayouri (Iran) 2; J Perry (Eng) 6 J O’Connor
(Eng) 5; K Wilson (Eng) 6 K Maflin (Nor) 3Football
Champions League (8.0 unless stated)
Group E Krasnodar v Rennes (5.55); Seville v
Chelsea. Group F Borussia Dortmund v Lazio;
Club Bruges v Zenit St Petersburg. Group G
Ferencvaros v Barcelona; Juventus v
Dynamo Kiev. Group H Basaksehir v RB
Leipzig (5.55); Man United v PSG.
Sky Bet Championship (7.45 unless stated)
Blackburn v Millwall; Luton v Norwich;
Middlesbrough v Swansea (7.0); Nottingham
Forest v Watford; Sheffield Wednesday v
Reading; Wycombe v Stoke.
League One (7.45 unless stated) Wimbledon
v Peterborough (6.0); Bristol Rovers v
Gillingham (7.0); Charlton v MK Dons; Hull v
Doncaster (7.0); Shrewsbury v Accrington.
League Two Cambridge v Mansfield (7.0); Carl-
isle v Salford (7.0); Walsall v Stevenage (7.45)Morecambe(1) 1 Barrow (0) 0
Mendes Gomes 12 Sent off: Hird 15
Oldham (0) 0 Tranmere (1) 1
Vaughan 27
P WD L FA GD Pts
Newport County... 149 3 2 22 1210 30
Cheltenham............. 159 2 4 24 13 11 29
Exeter.......................... 157 6 2 30 18 12 27
Forest Green........... 157 5 3 20 14 6 26
Cambridge............... 13 7 4 2 26 1016 25
Leyton O.................... 157 3 5 24 17 7 24
Tranmere.................. 157 3 5 18 15 3 24
Carlisle........................ 147 2 5 19 15 4 23
Salford City.............. 13 6 4 3 21 11 10 22
Bolton.......................... 156 4 5 17 18 -1 22
Morecambe............. 156 4 5 18 25 -7 22
Colchester................ 145 6 3 21 21 0 21
Crawley Town........ 155 4 6 20 19 1 19
Port Vale.................... 156 1 8 18 18 0 19
Harrogate Town... 155 4 6 17 19-2 19
Walsall........................ 143 8 3 13 16 -3 17
Oldham....................... 155 2 8 21 28-7 17
Grimsby..................... 13 4 3 6 12 22 -10 15
Scunthorpe.............. 13 4 2 7 13 21 -8 14
Barrow........................ 152 7 6 20 23-3 13
Bradford.................... 143 4 7 14 19 -5 13
Stevenage................ 142 5 7 10 15 -5 11
Mansfield Town.... 14 1 8 5 13 19 -6 11
Southend.................. 14 1 211 6 29 -23 5National League Chesterfield 0 Aldershot
Town 0; Kings Lynn Town 1 Bromley 4;
Maidenhead United P Dover Athletic P;
Solihull Moors 2 Hartlepool United 0;
Wealdstone 1 Torquay United 2; Woking 0
Sutton United 1; Wrexham 0 Altrincham 1;
Yeovil Town 1 Eastleigh 3
Top of table P WD L FA GD Pts
Torquay United.... 10 8 1 1 22 8 14 25
Sutton Utd................. 117 2 2 19 12 7 23
Bromley...................... 115 4 2 21 13 8 19
Altrincham............... 13 5 3 5 12 13 -1 18
Eastleigh..................... 8 5 2 1 19 10 9 17
Woking........................ 115 2 4 17 13 4 17
Wrexham................... 115 2 4 13 9 4 17
Maidenhead Utd.... 115 2 4 15 19 -4 17
Wealdstone............. 125 2 5 20 25 -5 17
Solihull Moors......... 8 5 1 2 13 5 8 16P WD L FA GD Pts
Hull................................13 10 0 3 24 1014 30
Lincoln City............. 149 2 3 18 10 8 29
Peterborough........ 149 1 4 23 1310 28
Charlton..................... 13 8 2 3 19 12 7 26
Ipswich....................... 158 2 5 19 15 4 26
Portsmouth............. 157 4 4 26 15 11 25
Sunderland.............. 146 6 2 18 12 6 24
Fleetwood Town.. 157 2 6 25 1510 23
Accrington ............... 117 1 3 14 10 4 22
Doncaster................. 126 3 3 22 14 8 21
Crewe.......................... 156 1 8 17 16 1 19
Blackpool.................. 146 1 7 15 18 -3 19
Plymouth.................. 145 4 5 20 25 -5 19
Northampton.......... 155 3 7 15 23 -8 18
AFC Wimbledon....13 4 5 41616 0 17
Gillingham................ 13 5 2 6 13 17-4 17
Rochdale................... 144 4 6 16 20-4 16
Swindon..................... 155 1 9 21 30-9 16
MK Dons.................... 143 5 6 16 19-3 14
Oxford Utd............... 144 2 8 15 23-8 14
Bristol Rovers......... 13 3 4 6 11 20 -9 13
Burton Albion......... 152 5 8 19 29 -10 11
Shrewsbury............. 13 1 6 6 13 21-8 9
Wigan.......................... 142 2 10 10 22 -12 8League Two
Bradford (1) 1 Cheltenham(1) 2
Donaldson 23 May 45
Clements 76
Colchester (1) 1 Crawley (1) 1
Harriott 13 Tunnicliffe 20
Forest Green(0) 1 Newport (1) 1
Matt 77 Abrahams 45+2
(pen)
Grimsby (1) 1 Exeter (3) 4
Hendrie 31 Bowman 20
Williams 40, 44
Jay 68
Harrogate (1) 2 Scunthorpe(2) 5Muldoon 35 Onariase 16
Hall 90 Eisa 41, 63 (pen)
Loft 74
Jarvis 89Blackburn................. 146 3 5 27 16 11 21
Middlesbrough...... 145 6 3 14 9 5 21
Cardiff......................... 155 5 5 20 13 7 20
Millwall....................... 144 8 2 12 10 2 20
Barnsley..................... 155 4 6 17 17 0 19
Preston....................... 156 1 8 20 23-3 19
Luton........................... 145 4 5 11 17 -6 19
Huddersfield........... 155 3 7 18 22 -4 18
QPR............................... 154 5 6 17 22-5 17
Birmingham............ 153 7 5 11 14 -3 16
Coventry.................... 153 5 7 15 25 -10 14
Rotherham............... 153 4 8 14 20-6 13
Nottm Forest.......... 143 3 8 9 17 -8 12
Wycombe................. 142 4 8 7 20 -13 10
Sheffield Wed......... 143 5 6 7 12 -5 8
Derby........................... 15 1 5 9 7 22 -15 8League One
Blackpool (0) 1 Portsmouth(0) 0
Anderson 64Crewe (1) 4 Swindon (2) 2
Powell 39
Ng 54
Lowery 63
Dale 66Grant 20
Smith 38Lincoln City(0) 2 Wigan (0) 1
Grant 69
Hopper 83Naismith 52N’hampton (0) 1 Fleetwood (0) 0
Bolger 47
Oxford Utd (0) 0 Ipswich (0) 0Plymouth (0) 0 Rochdale (3) 4
Beesley 3
Morley 23
Keohane 45+12
Humphrys 73
Sunderland(0) 1 Burton (0) 1Power 85 Vernam 60Football
Champions League
Group A
A Madrid (1) 1 B Munich (0) 1
Joao Felix 26 Muller 86 (pen)
L Moscow (0) 1 R B Salzburg(2) 3
An Miranchuk 79
(pen)
Berisha 28, 41
Adeyemi 81P WD LF A GD Pts
B Munich (Q)........... 54 1 0 16 5 11 13
A Madrid................... 5 1 3 1 58 -3 6
R B Salzburg............51131015-54
L Moscow................. 50 3 2 58 -3 3
Group B
B M’gladbach(1) 2 Inter Milan (1) 3
Plea 45+1, 75 Darmian 17
Lukaku 64, 73
S Donetsk (0) 2 Real Madrid(0) 0
Dentinho 57
Solomon 82
P WD LF A GD Pts
B M’gladbach.......... 52 2 1 16 7 9 8
S Donetsk.................52 12512-77
Real Madrid.............52 1299 07
Inter Milan...............5 12279-25
Group C
FC Porto (0) 0 Man City (0) 0
Marseilles (0) 2 Olympiacos (1) 1
Payet 55 (pen), 75
(pen)
Camara 336 Table above
Group D
Atalanta (0) 1 Midtjylland (1) 1Romero 79 Scholz 13Liverpool (0) 1 Ajax (0) 0
Jones 586 Table on page 68Sky Bet Championship
Birmingham(0) 1 Barnsley (0) 2Hogan 56 Woodrow 71 (pen)
Styles 84
B’mouth (0) 2 Preston (1) 3
Stanislas 71
Surridge 86Barkhuizen 16
Sinclair 49
Bauer 68
Cardiff (1) 3 Hudd’field (0) 0
Moore 35, 68
Glatzel 85
Derby (0) 1 Coventry (0) 1
Kazim-Richards 83 Hamer 90+1QPR (1) 1 Bristol City (1) 2Dickie 12 Wells 40
Nagy 50
Rotherham(0) 0 Brentford (0) 2
Sent off: Miller 82 Forss 57
Toney 82 (pen)
P WD LF A GD Pts
Norwich..................... 148 4 2 18 11 7 28
Bournemouth......... 157 6 2 25 16 9 27
Bristol City................ 158 3 4 19 15 4 27
Brentford.................. 157 5 3 22 13 9 26
Watford...................... 147 5 2 19 11 8 26
Swansea.................... 147 5 2 16 8 8 26
Reading...................... 148 2 4 23 18 5 26
Stoke........................... 146 4 4 21 18 3 22If Manchester City go on to win the
Champions League this season this
match will not feature prominently in
their highlights reel, but the goalless
draw against Porto meant that they
qualified as winners of group C with
one game to spare.
Pep Guardiola’s team huffed and
puffed but no matter how hard they
tried they could not find a way past the
excellent Porto goalkeeper Agustín
Marchesín, who kept City at bay to send
his team through to the last 16 as
runners-up.
Only Rúben Dias knows how the
match ended scoreless. City’s record
signing had subdued Moussa Marega,
the dangerous Porto forward, all even-
ing, but it is safe to say that his finishing
is not quite on a par with that of his
team-mates. With Porto creaking
under relentless pressure from City’s
much-changed team, Dias slid in at the
back post, completely unmarked, but
somehow managed to hook Fernandi-
nho’s deflected cross away from an
open goal from less than one yard away.
Dias’s accidental clearance flew
straight to Ferran Torres, who
attempted an overhead kick, but Mar-
chesín was there to stop the Spaniard.
Some of the seven players brought
into the team, such as Phil Foden and
Fernandinho, acquitted themselves
well, but others, like Eric García,
showed signs of rustiness. That mat-
tered little to Guardiola, who would
have won the game had Gabriel Jesus’s
late strike not been overturned by VAR.
As far as Guardiola was concerned it
was mission accomplished, as he can
now rest key players such as Kevin De
Bruyne and Raheem Sterling in next
week’s dead rubber against Marseilles,
three days before the Manchester
derby at Old Trafford. “We played
exceptionally well,” the City manager
said. “Unfortunately we could not score
but we came here to finish first and we
did. Incredible congratulations to the
team for all the group stage performan-
ces, especially the away games. We
played with huge personality.”
Guardiola screamed at his players
from the touchline from minute one.
He wanted to see the likes of Foden,
García, Fernandinho, João Cancelo
and Bernardo Silva take their chance to
impress him while the likes of De
Bruyne and Kyle Walker rested.
City could have had an early penalty
when Malang Sarr cleared Sterling out
but VAR decided the defender had not
committed a foul.
García was wasteful, losing posses-
sion twice in as many minutes. Jesús
Corona raced forward on the counter
after García’s second error, but City got
back in time.
Ederson banged into Otávio in the
City box. The latter fell to the turf, but
neither the referee nor the video assist-ant deemed it to be a penalty despite the
protests of the men in blue and white.
When City had the ball, Porto quick-
ly formed two defensive lines, one con-
taining five players, the other four. City
could not pick their way through, ex-
cept during the odd counter. In one
such instance, Foden curled a pass to
Torres but Marchesín saved the shot.
Had Torres found the net, the goal
would have been ruled out for offside.
Sterling burst into life again before
half-time. The forward crept in behind
the Porto defence to meet Fernandi-
nho’s pass, but just as he was about to
shoot Sarr made a crucial intervention.
The game started to get scrappy, but
Foden shone. His curved pass left Ster-
ling bearing down on goal. Marchesín
repelled his shot. The rebound fell to
Torres, but he dallied too long.
City kept plodding on and they
should have taken the lead midway
through the second half. Sterling
nudged Fernandinho’s cross to the backChampions League
Paul Hirst
City secure top spot but familiar
failings in front of goal resurface
Rooney calls
for clarity on
manager role
Wayne Rooney says a decision needs to
be made as soon as possible over a
permanent appointment to the Derby
County manager’s job amid
speculation that his former England
team-mate John Terry is being lined up
for the role.
Rooney watched Derby concede a
late equaliser for the second game
running with him in sole caretaker
charge as his side drew 1-1 at home to
Coventry City to stay bottom of the Sky
Bet Championship.
The 35-year-old, who did not play
last night at Pride Park, is keen on the
full-time job but said he did not know if
he would still be in charge for
Saturday’s trip to Millwall. A takeover
of Derby by Derventio Holdings,
controlled by Sheikh Khaled Bin Zayed
Al Nahyan — a cousin of the Manches-
ter City owner Sheikh Mansour — is
nearing completion.
“The quicker the new ownership is
done the better, because a decision
needs to be made,” Rooney said.
“For everyone at the club, the fans, all
the staff at the club, so that we can have
more stability and put more plans in
place. I’m hoping it’s really close. I will
take the team until then.”
When the name of Terry, who is on
the coaching staff at Aston Villa, was
put to Rooney, he said: “I’m sure the
owners will be doing their own research
and speaking to people, but that’s down
to them. Whatever decision is made, I’ll
respect it.
“Once it happens, there’ll be a press
release from the club. Then I can
answer your questions better.”
Colin Kazim-Richards looked to
have given Derby their first home win
since June with his 83rd-minute
headed goal from Nathan Byrne’s cross.
But in added time Gustavo Hamer
equalised for Coventry to leave the
home side without a win in 11 games.Sky Bet Championship
Graham HillDerby County
Kazim-Richards 83Coventry City
Hamer 90+11
1
Porto (3-5-2): A Marchesín 7 — C Mbemba 6,
D Leite 6, M Sarr 7 — W Manafá 6 (sub: Nanu
72min), Sérgio Oliveira 5, Otávio 6 (F Vieira 87),
M Uribe 6, Z Sanusi 7 — J Corona 5, (L Díaz 63, 6),
M Marega 5 (J De Lima 72) Barbosa 72). Booked
Marega.
Man City (4-2-3-1): Ederson 7 — J Cancelo 7,
R Dias 5, E García 6, O Zinchenko 7 — Rodri 6,
Fernandinho 7 — R Sterling 7, B Silva 6, P Foden 7
— F Torres 6 (G Jesus 71). Booked Rodri.
Referee B Kuipers (Neth).post where Dias should have tapped
in from close range but he fluffed his
shot and Marchesín palmed away
Torres’s follow-up. The defender
looked embarrassed.
It felt like nothing would get past
Marchesín. The Argentinian kept Silva
out at his near post and then denied
García. He tipped Jesus’s header on to
the bar and the Brazil striker tapped in
the rebound, but as City began to
celebrate the VAR spotted that Rodri
was offside in the build-up and the goal
was ruled out.Porto
Manchester City
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0
Jesus tapped in after his header was saved by the excellent Marchesín but VAR ruled it out for an offside in the build-up
MATT MCNULTY/MANCHESTER CITY/GETTY IMAGESGroup C
PW D L F APts
Man City (Q)....5 4 1 0 10 1 13
Porto (Q)............53 1 18310
Olympiacos...... 5104283
Marseilles.......... 51042103